A drug addict who had pushed a young woman on the rails of the metro in February 2019 was sentenced on Friday March 11 to five years in prison for attempted murder by the Paris Assize Court, which retained an alteration of her discernment by a mental disorder at the time of the events.
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The Paris Assize Court also imposed an obligation of socio-judicial follow-up for five years once the sentence has been served, with an order for psychiatric care.
If she fails to do so, she will be sentenced to an additional three years' imprisonment.
The Advocate General had requested 8 years in prison against Gertrude Eog, a 46-year-old Cameroonian who, on February 27, 2019, had pushed a young Hungarian on the rails of line 12 at Saint-Lazare station, a few seconds before the metro arrives.
The victim owes his salvation only to the gesture of a man who brought him up in extremis on the quay.
Gertrude Eog, who had drunk many high-alcohol beers and consumed several doses of crack, a smokable, cheap and very addictive derivative of cocaine, explained her gesture by her desire to escape inner demons and denied wanting to push the victim onto the tracks.